1.“Clinical hospital management” study result
Sodnompil Ts ; Dulamsuren S ; Shirnen L ; Barkhas A
Mongolian Medical Sciences 2010;153(3):12-15
Goal: To outline possible approaches in improving clinical hospital management upon reviewing of its current setting Materials and Methods: The study was conducted by qualitative method and data was collected through applying discussions and participatory approaches. In total, 155 participants were enrolled in the study, from which 72 were covered by the Focus Group Discussions, and the remained 83 were studied for Organizational Diagnostic Analysis.
Conclusions:
1. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Clinical hospital management levels, although they vary, management aspects are reasonably unsatisfactory. If to view in a isolation by each key role and direction of the management functions, organization, planning, quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation management encompass comparatively predominant advantages whereas human resources, information, finance, motivation, and decision making management enclose prevailing disadvantages. In terms of marketing management, it is extremely poor.
2. Healthcare Organizations’ strategic planning is advantageous focusing on essential skills and tools needed to enhance quality and accessibility of health care as new models of care delivery. Nevertheless, it is weak in operational processes resembling of introduction of technology initiatives and improving of health care targeted to vulnerable groups of the population.
3. Human resources management surrounds in a large amount of disadvantages, particularly, career development of personnel, workforce selection and research capability are inadequate.
4. Although management decisions made are usually accepted by working groups and are enforced their implementations, issues associated with any decisions to involve representaitives of community, regular dialogue of managers with staaf and clients and provision of supervision are fairly poor.
5. By and large, leading skills of managers are quite pleasing and the orders given by managers are executed on a timely manner. Conversely, awarding, incentives and motivation of personnel is highly problematic.
6. The following actions were in good shape, e.g monitoring and evaluation is performed according to the given guidelines, and performance evaluation is recognized by employees followed by inclusion of the findings in planning design. Notably, issues linked with cooperation with other agencies, ensuring quality assurances at the all levels and transparency to inform the cases for not being accountable and for poor performamce of the commands are in low morale.
7. Application of internal information network and provision of transparency and responsiveness has considerably been improved, while predominant mono communicative management, availability of electronic health security data, proper information utilization and time management is deficient.
8. Marketing and its management for High-Performance Healthcare Organizations are underprivileged and absolutely disadvantegious.
9. Even though financial management aspect has gained an introduction of software applications compatable with the Internationally Accepted Standards and Requirements and the projected resources have well mobilized, the necessary investment required for introduction of new technology, the budget for hospital expansion, the insufficient resources for risk management, mobilization of additional assets are limited.
10. International cooperation and collaboration is subject to the legal environment, economic, financial factors, inflation and other technical dynamics. Moreover, partnership with other sectors, private entities, civil society, and the public is scarce, and even, there is no adequate mechanism to gain supports of diverse aspects and to work effectively together.